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From: "Jean-Pierre Rosen" <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr>
Subject: Re: Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?)
Date: 1999/04/28
Date: 1999-04-28T17:15:47+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7g7fo3$rv9$1@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7g6c5v$8tg$2@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Edwin Guenthner a �crit dans le message
<7g6c5v$8tg$2@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>...
>Jean-Pierre Rosen <rosen.adalog@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
>
>>
>> But, as I noted in a previous message, this doesn't work if A and B
>> are two-dimensional arrays. You should then write:
>
>Pardon? There is now law in Java that says:
>you are not allowed to write a clone method which will give you a
deep
>copy of a whole array.
>
>You have to iterate over all fields - but you should hide this detail
>from your user.

The trouble is that arrays are *implicit* classes. AFAIK, there is no
way to redefine a method for stuff[], only for stuff.
Therefore, you must package your array into a class. But if the user
of stuff wants to declare a stuff[], there is nothing you can do.
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           J-P. Rosen (Rosen.Adalog@wanadoo.fr)
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  reply	other threads:[~1999-04-28  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-04-23  0:00 Ada for numerics computation (i.e. forget Fortran ?) Hans N. Beck
1999-04-23  0:00 ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-24  0:00   ` bglbv
1999-04-25  0:00     ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-25  0:00       ` bill
1999-04-25  0:00         ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-26  0:00         ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-26  0:00           ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-26  0:00             ` Markus Kuhn
1999-04-27  0:00               ` me
1999-04-27  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-04-27  0:00                   ` dennison
1999-04-27  0:00                 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1999-04-28  0:00                   ` Edwin Guenthner
1999-04-28  0:00                     ` Jean-Pierre Rosen [this message]
1999-04-25  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-04-23  0:00 ` Gautier
1999-04-23  0:00   ` Gautier
1999-04-27  0:00 ` Joachim Schroeer
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